Rebecca Evans sings her first Mimi in a reprise of the Goran Jarvefelt staging of Puccini’s weepie. Welsh National Opera is waving the flag with all-Welsh principals: Gwyn Hughes Jones as Rodolfo, Jason Howard as Marcello and Charlotte Ellett as Musetta. Carlo Rizzi brings some italianita to the pit.Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, today

The Return of Ulysses

Monteverdi’s great retelling of Ulysses’s return to his homeland gets the David Alden treatment in a musical performance led by the Italian baroque specialist Rinaldo Alessandrini. Paul Nilon and Sara Fulgoni star.WNO, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Sa